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Today in the Fortune 500: News Corp's new publication released, Intel's Cougar Point chip set barely hit the market before recalls and Shell says algae won't be its fuel of the future.
February 3, 2011: 8:49 AM ET
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THE DAILY IS HERE Rupert Murdoch's baby launched at a New York press conference. It's News Corp.'s (NWS) new iPad-only publication, sold exclusively through Apple's (APPL) iTunes store for 99 cents a pop. Murcoch says it's supposed to target the 15 million people predicted to buy new iPads this year. Check the demo to see its spiffy features. [BBC]
APPLE, FOR ITS PART wants to funnel more sales of electronic publications through iTunes, and thus gain more control over the e-reader market. Apple announced a new delivery and billing system intended to foster its dominance and other publishers are worried. [Wall Street Journal]
COUGAR STRIKES sales of PCs for companies including HP, Dell (DELL), Samsung and Lenovo that built models around Intel's (INTC) very fast but apparently flawed Sandy Bridge microprocessor. The faulty chipsets built around Sandy Bridge chips are called Cougar Point. About 8 million are on the market now, and Inetel plans to compensate customers for them. [BBC]
GEORGIA ON HP'S MIND Tech company Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) plans to outsource IT used by its clients in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union countries to Georgia. HP will pay tens of millions of dollars to set up the region's first IT shared services center, which will ultimately employ about 1,000 people. [Bloomberg]
SHELL KNOCKS ALGAE out of the list of biofuels competing for its funding. It's part of Shell's (RDSA) renewable plan. The company has dubbed 2011 the "year of choices" when it will narrow its investment in ten biofuel technologies down to five. [Fast Company]
NIKE OWNS US ALL Nike's (NKE) four-part strategy for global dominance explained. [Fortune]
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Today in the Fortune 500: BP's long road ahead to better safety, delays on Intel's Sandy Bridge and Google joins forces with Twitter to enable tweets from Egypt.
The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
BP'S CORPORATE CULTURE OF SAFETY or the lack thereof has been under intense scrutiny ever since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf. But looking into BP's behavior in Alaska's MORE
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
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Today in the Fortune 500: ITT splits up, Apple's iPad slows PC growth and Intel wants to rule the cloud.
The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
BREAKING UP IS FOR THE BEST for ITT Corp, which announced plans to split into three spin-off businesses. The company controlled three main channels: insurance, automotive and defense MORE
Jan 13, 2011 8:16 AM ETPosted in: Amazon.com, Apple, Best Buy, Fortune 500, Google, INTC, Intel Corporation, IPad, JPMorgan Chase, Personal computer
